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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: POBBLE
Pobble who has no Toes (Lear)
Pocahontas - and John Smith
- brief biography
pocket boroughs - before the Reform Act
pocket watches - and spiral balance spring
Podebrady, George of - king of Bohemia
podestá - in Italian communes
- and The premature burial
Poema de mio Cid - Spanish epic
Poetics - by Aristotle
Poet Laureate (in Britain)
Poets' Corner (Westminster Abbey)
- and Chaucer
pogroms - in Russia in 1905
Poindexter, John - and the Iran-Contra affair
Pointe-Noire - railway link to Brazzaville
point-to-point (horserace)
poison gas - in World War I
poisoning the wells - charged against Jews
poisons - as medicines
Poitiers - battle in AD 732
- battle in 1356
- de Vere in command of archers
POLAND
- tour through time
- and Roman Catholicism
- and Jews in the 14th century
- and Enigma in the 1930s
Polanie tribe - and Poland
Polaris - navigation by pole star
Pole, Reginald - death of brother and mother
- in England from 1554
- brief biography
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
pole star - as navigational aid
police (in Britain)
poliomyelitis - history of the disease
polis - the Greek city-state
Polisario - in the Western Sahara
Polish corridor - in the 1930s
Polish Succession - war of 1733-8
Political Discourses - by Hume
political parties (in Britain)
Political Register - and William Cobbett
Politics - by Aristotle
Polk, James - and the annexation of Texas
- and the Mexican War
Poll, Hermann - and the harpsichord
Pollock's Toy Museum - toy theatre
Pollok House - art collection in Glasgow
poll tax - paid by non-Muslims
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